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Confiage et scolarisation des enfants en milieu rural à Madagascar
Rakoto-Tiana, Nelly - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Much empirical research found that fostered children are less likely than others to attend school, which suggests that fostering may be disadvantaged human capital investment. This paper tries to analyze the impact of child fostering on school enrollment in rural Madagascar. We examine firstly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071853
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Modéliser les trajectoires démo-économiques des individus et des ménages dans un pays en développement à l'aide d'un modèle de microsimulation dynamique. Application pour la Côte d'Ivoire
Grimm, Michael - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2002
Microsimulation constitutes a particularly powerful instrument for evaluating the distributive impact of macro-economic shocks. All existing models applied to developing countries remain static. I develop a dynamic model able to account for the temporal dimension of macro-economic shocks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073022
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Fertility and Schooling in Ouagadougou: The Role of Family Networks
Bougma, Moussa; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure; Legrand, Thomas K. - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
The importance of family solidarity networks is routinely cited in the literature to explain why the relationship … extended family, or receive monetary support from them to pay for schooling costs. However, there has been little empirical … of family networks and number of siblings on schooling of children in suburban districts of Ouagadougou. The findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193765
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Comment les femmes concilient-elles mariage et travail à Dakar et à Lomé ?
Adjamagbo, Agnès; Antoine, Philippe; Béguy, Donatien; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
are increasingly called on to find extra income has implications on their family lives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074508
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Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Social Networks
Pasquier-Doumer, Laure; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This paper sheds light on the role of social networks in the dynamics of a West African labour market, i.e. in the transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to self-employment, and from self-employment to wage employment. It investigates the effects of three dimensions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720295
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Transitions and Occupational Changes in a West African Urban Labour Market: The Role of Social Network
Pasquier-Doumer, Laure; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
This paper sheds light on the role of social networks in the dynamics of workers in an urban labour market of a West African country. We examine the extent to which one's network is essential in labour market transitions, in particular from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073363
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The Measurement of Income Distribution Dynamics when Demographics are correlated with Income
Grimm, Michael; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
empirically using three waves (1993, 1997 and 2000) of the Indonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS). We distinguish the direct effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166371
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Work incentives and household insurance: Sequential contracting with altruistic individuals and moral hazard
Aubert, Cécile - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
Two agents sequentially contracts with different principals under moral hazard. If agents care for one another, the second principal gains by insuring them over first wages. Even with independent tasks, the first principal must offer riskier payments to induce effort.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795028
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Individual Microcredit and Social Pressure
Jaunaux, Laure; Venet, Baptiste - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
The purpose of this article is to analyse the efficiency of the repayment incentive mechanisms used for individual microcredit, the guarantor mechanism in particular. Little academic research has been devoted to this instrument whereas it is very frequently used. Churchill (1999) notably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861398
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Individual Microcredit and Social Pressure
Jaunaux, Laure; Venet, Baptiste - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
The purpose of this article is to analyse the efficiency of the repayment incentive mechanisms used for individual microcredit, the guarantor mechanism in particular. Little academic research has been devoted to this instrument whereas it is very frequently used. Churchill (1999) notably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707358